What 25 years of building open data infrastructure taught us about creating platforms that endure and keeping them alive long after launch day.
Building open data infrastructure is the easy part. Sustaining it, funding it, migrating it, and keeping it useful for a decade or more is where most government and public sector data platforms quietly break down.
Over 25 years, Link Digital has seen why some open data platforms last and others stall. This whitepaper collects those lessons.
Stories drawn from 25 years of keeping data platforms in service.
Built to last: What twenty-five years teaches
The three jobs of a living data platform
Taking a knowledge engineer approach to our work
The next twenty-five years: Making data trustworthy in the machine-readable era
CKAN
Official CKAN co-steward.
25 years
Working with government, research, NGO and academic institutions.
Implementing digital infrastructure, from digital web assets to digital public goods.
Twenty-five years of lessons in one place, and see what's next in the years to come.
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